stop normalizing asking if your partner would still love you if you were a worm

normalize asking if they'd still love you if you were a dream stan

if the answer is yes, <em>get the hell out</em>

Every Calendar pre-order gets the HEX sticker as well, so I'm posting it along with the introduction to the Universe to preface it. I've decided to put writing HEX as my priority for September/October, with the goal to publish the first chapter on AO3 exactly on Halloween - so here it is! Whatever happens it's gonna be there.

It has been stuck in my head like an earworm, so I can't wait.

I haven't played Pillars of Eternity in a while but I can't get Vatnir out of my head. Just the thought of being "blessed" by the god of entropy, being forced to cope with necrosis and chronic illness/pain and god knows what else since birth, either being shunned out of disgust or idolized as a symbol of death for that. Imagine people showing you kindness solely because they want to kill themselves near you. What a bitter fucking existence, yet his morgue of a camp is warm and welcoming and friendly. No one in his flock are cruel towards each other, unless I'm forgetting a bit of dialogue somewhere.

Vatnir must have worked hard to cultivate a decent community, even knowing what will happen in the end. I wonder how many times he's done that. I wonder if he hopes that the goodness kith show to each other under his guidance will be enough to keep them from wishing for death or if the community he made is more of an attempt to keep himself from falling into despair at the awful things that happen around him. Either way, I love him. He was put in charge of a cult and chose to convince people to be good for however long they're here instead of abusing his position for his own gain or pleasure. And I'm so glad that the Watcher can take him away from all that death and scarcity. I hope the warmth of the Deadfire eases some of the aches in his bones.

Lord give me a man like Jess Mariano 🙏

Finally posting Hideaki’s ATLA self

He actually isn’t involved in neither Korra or Aang’s story btw, he’s something the new earth avatar has to deal with. For like. easily two books non-consecutively

Alenoah, where Noah cares about Alejandro, more than Alejandro's family did:

Noah: I will now torture you.

Alejandro: Kinky!~

Noah: I think you are brilliant and beautiful.

Alejandro: Wait!

Noah: You deserve to be cared for and loved, despite your mistakes.

Alejandro: No!

Noah: Your feelings and needs are valid, and deserve to be heard.

Alejandro: I need a safeword! 😳

Real.

i love how astarion can be as much as a bitch as he wants and be as snarky as he wants towards other companions but as soon as one is jokingly snarky towards him in return suddenly they're the actual worst character in the game. like okay.

came for complaining, left without a nose

(Okay yes his canon birthday is Summer 13, but it's the 13th of a summer month, so I'm saying it's his birthday today lol)

Tum laate hoge apne sanam ke liye chaand aur taare... Meri Chaand-Si-Mehbooba toh mujhe din mein he taare dikha deti hai...

My lady really is a sweetheart bas gussa mat dilaya karo usko... @wizardcherryblossom 😂❤️

"Freedom suits you, Kaeya." Venti once told him in a solemn night at the bar. The bard, no, the archon looks at him with eyes lightly glowing as a testament to how truthful and serious he was being.

Kaeya can't help but laugh bitterly at those words before chugging what remained from his glass of wine. Freedom may suit him well in the eyes of the God of Freedom himself, but it is also the one thing that Kaeya will never have. Not while his past continues to claw at his very being, holding him back and shackling him with their hopes and dreams.

Living in Mondstat truly is the most ironic thing for someone like Kaeya Alberich- a sinner.

An open cage is, after all, a taunt to a bird whose wings were clipped a long time ago.

every time someone points out the fatphobia in a piece of media, there will always be that person who'll justify "but it's not actually fatphobic!!! it's actually very progressive!!!", or they'll basically say that op is exaggerating bc the piece of media in question is a beloved flawless work of god

“Even if it’s not my fault, it’s still my accident, it’s still my mess. It’s still something that - exists, because I do” oh. and he just doesn’t know another way to help, either, because all his life has been screwing up without helpful direction in order to meet impossible standards, and so there is no other way than to bleed himself dry. for the cause, for a friend in need, for anyone he doesn’t know. especially for the problems that he himself creates, because to him his pure existence has always been the problem, because the elders were fucked as hell and traumatized him to no end - so even causing problems is a sin. a single mistake is a sin. it always has been. and it’s rough trying to learn anything other than that mindset - but Jay and Chip won’t let him struggle alone.

and it’s like - that’s what comes with being raised the way he was. punished for imperfection, but there’s no guidebook, no definition of perfect. and so perfect is never good enough anyway. it’s a trap and there is no winning, so there’s nothing else to do but take the blame and bear it, and internalize it. and it makes actual failure and actual mistakes that much more painful. of course responsibility needs to be taken for your actions - but when you’ve been taking responsibility for everything, up to and including the literal fate of the world, all of your life, every outcome is your fault. and guilt only builds, and resentment only festers. of course he hates the elders for how they treated him. of course he hates himself.

he’s grabbing his own destiny and making his own choices - but the thing about making your own choices is that there are so many of them. there’s no destiny to blame anymore. and all you can do is the best you can. and it’s not always going to be good enough. he’s learned plenty about failure, but with Jay and Chip around, maybe he’ll learn about second chances, and self forgiveness. maybe he’ll learn that accidents aren’t always met with extremes. and that he’s not the only one left to deal with a mess if he slips up and breaks something.

I love when I go into the Sam tag and see Sam hate. very fun

whenever him and lupin hug, jigen tends to hold him real tight and nuzzle his face against his collarbone or his neck